Mar 11 2015
The Most Important People In The World Are From Arkansas By Charles Pierce, Mar 10, 2015 @ 9:21 AM I know I missed it on election night back in November, but it seems that 478,819 citizens of the state of Arkansas voted themselves in control of the foreign policy of the United States. They …
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Mar 10 2015
The Mother of All Middle East Conspiracy Theories By Karl reMarks, 9 Mar 2015 The Middle East is, to coin a phrase, a complex place. All is not what it seems. Appearances can be deceptive. The truth is hard to come by. It is also a place where journalistic conventions necessitate the use of …
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Feb 25 2015
Live from darkest Arkansas By Gene Lyons, February 19, 2015 Housebound in an ice storm, the columnist finds himself distracted by online trivia and tempted to yell at the TV: Washington Post headline: “Williams undone by his gift for story-telling/Anchor’s love of a good yarn played a role in his downfall.” Gee, you think? The …
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Feb 24 2015
American exceptionalism isn’t our national religion. Criticism of the US isn’t a sin By Megan Carpentier, Tuesday 24 February 2015 12.45 EST There is danger in buying your own hype, of listening exclusively to the people who think you can do no wrong because you’re you: your right-ness becomes tautological, based on the sole …
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Feb 24 2015
The myth and lie of American exceptionalism By Tom Ehrich, February 24 at 11:32 AM TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — While I was driving to this eastern Oklahoma city that serves as capital of the Cherokee Nation, the Oklahoma Legislature was considering a bill to ban the teaching of history based on facts. Instead, the legislators …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: America is in deep trouble! Trouble? From what? Is it from radical Islamic terrorism? Al-Qaida? ISIS or Islamic State? Not even close — it’s global warming! That’s right! That’s what the Obama administration told us recently. They said that “the danger from global warming is far more dangerous to us than extreme …
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Feb 23 2015
Dear editor: Oh brother! Where art thou?! I mean really, where do you get this stuff? There must be something in the water here. A few weeks ago, a bizarre prognostication of smiting from outer space appeared on the pages of this newspaper. In the religion section. Apparently asteroid BL86, in just 12 short years, …
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